Memory is something that is very hard to understand and when trying to study the function and how it works it can be very complex. As a registered nurse I have experienced this first had not only in my studies but also with my patients. Through out my 5 years as a nurse I have seen several different types of patients those who are honest and give a full health history, those who simply can not remember, and the ones who think they remember but you have the proof right in front of you that they are mistaken. Notice how I did not say that they are lying because sometimes they simply believe what they are telling you yet they are not correct. Kurt Vonnegut definitely had some trouble with remembering things correctly if you review the way he writes his book Slaughterhouse five. In the book the character Billy Pilgrim invents this place called Tralfamadore it where the aliens take him and how he "travels in time" (Vonnegut 25). Sometimes we may think that we remember an event a certain way and think that he have all of the exact details in place but yet we are mistaken for what the real truth (Wombles 1). The reasoning behind this is because when we are exposed to other things around us it can morph our memories to be remembered in a sense that was not accurate (Wombles 1). The fight or flight response is one way that a memory can be permanently instilled into our brains in a way that it can not be removed (Niemark 1). There are many factors that can influence why someones memory is distorted which leads us to believe that anyone can remember something incorrectly at times.

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our everyday lives. Think about the first time you ever tied your shoe laces or
rode a bike; those are all forms of memory , long term or short. If you do not
remember anything from the past , you would never learn; thus unable to process.
Without memory you would simply be exposed to new and unfamiliar things . Life
would be absent and bare of the richness of it happy or sorrow. Many scientists
are still unsure of all that happens and what and how memory works. They are
certain , though , that it is involvement of chemical changes in the brain which
changes the physical structure (Loftus p. 392). It has been found after many
research , that new memory is stored in a section of the brain called the
hippocampus (Loftus p. 392). Memory is acquired by a series of solidifying
events , but more research is still needed to discover and fully understand
(Loftus p. 392).
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systems are sensory memory , short-term , and long-term memory. Sensory memory
is the shortest and less extensive of the others. It can hold memory for only an
instance (Memory p. 32). Suppose you see a tree , the image of the tree is
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These were the words said by the famous Czech novelist and playwright, Ivan Klima, during his speech at a conference in Lahti, Finland in 1990.
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–Active system that receives, stores, organizes, alters, and recovers (retrieves)
MEMORY The ability to retain information over time
–Active system that receives, stores, organizes, alters, and recovers (retrieves)
THREE STAGES/TYPES OF MEMORY
•SENSORY
•SHORT TERM (WORKING)
•LONG TERM
THREE PROCESSES
•ENCODING
•STORING
•RETRIEVING
Stages of Memory
•SENSORY (IN RAW FORM)
–The first stage of memory
–Stores an exact copy of incoming information
•ICONIC memories
–Fleeting visual or mental images
–Lasts about ½ second
•ECHONIC memories
–Brief continuation of the sound in the auditory system
–Lasts about 2 seconds
Sensory
•What’s the purpose?
•Prevents overload
•Decision type to determine value
•Stability playback and recognition
•If attention is paid goes to Short Term
Stages of Memory
•Short-Term Memory (STM)
–(also known as Working Memory)
–Limited duration 2 to 30 seconds
Unless use Techniques:
What do you do?
Short-Term Memory
•Rehearsal
–Maintenance Rehearsal
•Repeating information silently to prolong its presence in STM
•a.k.a. rote learning; not effective for long-term learning
–Elaborative Rehearsal
•Links new information with existing memories and knowledge in LTM
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